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JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)

Lot 152
10.11.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 4 380 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 839030
Lot 152 | JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)
Estimate value
$ 700 000 – 1 000 000
JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)

Figure

signed, numbered, stamped with foundry mark and marked with thumbprint ‘JLipchitz 4/7 MODERN ART FDRY. N.Y.’ (on the back of the base)

bronze with black patina

Height: 83 in. (210.8 cm.)

Conceived in 1926-1930





Provenance

Otto Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York.

Private collection (acquired from the above, October 1961); sale, Christie’s, New York, 14 November 1989, lot 70.

Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York (acquired at the above sale).

Acquired by the late owner, 1999.



Literature

M. Raynal, Jacques Lipchitz, Paris, 1947, p. 16 (another cast illustrated in situ at the Museum of Modern Art, New York).

A.C. Ritchie, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, New York, 1952, p. 140 (another cast illustrated in situ at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, p. 141).

A.H. Barr, ed., Masters of Modern Art, New York, 1958, p. 86 (another cast illustrated in situ at the Museum of Modern Art, New York).

R. Goldwater, Lipchitz, New York, 1959, no. 14 (another cast illustrated in situ at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; titled Figures).

A.M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz, His Sculpture, New York, 1960, pp. 46-47 and 173 (another cast illustrated on the cover; another cast illustrated again in situ at the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, pls. 45-46).

Fifty Years of Lipchitz Sculpture, exh. cat., Otto Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York, 1961, p. 26 (illustrated).

H.H. Arnason, Jacques Lipchitz: Sketches in Bronze, New York, 1969, p. 9 (another cast illustrated in situ at the artist's home, Hastings-on-Hudson, p. 9, fig. 3).

J. Lipchitz and H.H. Arnason, My Life in Sculpture, London, 1972, pp. 89-91, no. 75 (another cast illustrated in situ at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, p. 91).

T. Vischer, Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert, Basel, 1984, pp. 104 and 226, no. 112 (another cast illustrated in situ at the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, p. 105).

A.G. Wilkinson, “Paris and London: Modigliani, Lipchitz, Epstein and Gaudier-Brzeska” in Primitivism in 20th Century Art, New York, 1984, vol. II, p. 429 (another cast illustrated in color in situ at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, p. 428).

A.G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1996, vol. I, pp. 77 and 189, no. 206 (another cast illustrated, pp. 77 and 189).



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